vimeo: ERROR: Unable to retrieve video webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

[benoon]

youtube-dl ver. 2012.02.27
python ver. 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Feb 28 2011, 21:55:45)

when trying to get any vimeo link: ERROR: Unable to retrieve video webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

any ideas ?

[jcarlosgarciasegovia]

Duplicate of issue #285

[FiloSottile]

Not quite. Surely Vimeo is interested in both bugs, but the code has changed since #284 (fixed), and that's a new (recent) issue.

[jcarlosgarciasegovia]

I do not have any problems downloading from vimeo with the current master branch.
Since the issue was open after the version the issue reports I thought it has been fixed.
Do you have problems downloading from vimeo using the current master branch?

[benoon]

yes, version 2012.02.27, gives the error with vimeo.

[alexstuckey]

I had this error with a video, then I updated youtube-dl (-U) and it worked. Are others still having issues with it?

[benoon]

Yes, after updating vimeo works again.
But why this new version is compiled ? How to get this version with the visible code ?

[alexstuckey]

I assume just look at the HEAD revision of this repo

[benoon]

where? can you paste the link ?

[FiloSottile]

The new compiled version is actually only a zip file (that you can unzip -
see #342 for ref) of the youtube_dl folder that you can find in the root of
the repo.
When the zip file is executed, __main__.py gets run.

This was done to be able to split the code in different files (easier to
manage) while keeping the ease of distribution of the single executable
file.

Also, the tracebacks remain readable and refer to files and line numbers of
the original folder.

I think I should put up a FAQ for this.

[benoon]

that's interesting. i unzipped it and tested with vimeo. it doesn't work.
zipped version works.
why?

[FiloSottile]

You have to unzip in a clean folder, then call "python ./main.py ..."

[benoon]

yee, i do that, it unzips just one - youtube-dl file..

[FiloSottile]

This is how it goes for me (Linux):

➜  ~  cd youtube-dl 
➜  youtube-dl git:(master) mkdir tmp
➜  youtube-dl git:(master) cp youtube-dl tmp 
➜  youtube-dl git:(master) ✗ cd tmp
➜  tmp git:(master) ✗ unzip youtube-dl 
Archive:  youtube-dl
warning [youtube-dl]:  22 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
  (attempting to process anyway)
  inflating: FileDownloader.py       
  inflating: InfoExtractors.py       
  inflating: PostProcessor.py        
  inflating: __init__.py             
  inflating: __main__.py             
  inflating: utils.py                
➜  tmp git:(master) ✗ ls
FileDownloader.py  __init__.py  PostProcessor.py  youtube-dl
InfoExtractors.py  __main__.py  utils.py
➜  tmp git:(master) ✗ rm youtube-dl 
➜  tmp git:(master) ✗ ./__main__.py http://vimeo.com/18279777
[vimeo] 18279777: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 18279777: Extracting information
[download] Destination: 18279777.mp4
[download]   1.7% of 324.99M at    1.65M/s ETA 03:14

Which is your platform/OS? How/With what do you unzip?

[benoon]

yhmmm
coz i get this

# unzip youtube-dl
Archive:  youtube-dl
  End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
  the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of youtube-dl or
        youtube-dl.zip, and cannot find youtube-dl.ZIP, period.

[FiloSottile]

Please make sure that you have the latest youtube-dl executable:
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube-dl?raw=true

[benoon]

ok, my mistake :)
you are right, it works.
thank you.

[FiloSottile]

No problem, nice to hear it works!
You're welcome.